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Is it real? by David Ferland

Posted on August 12, 2020June 9, 2021

David Ferland earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from Colorado State University. Since then, he has baked bagels, driven the bookmobile and currently teaches orientation and mobility to people Read More

Raining Fish by Madelaine Zadik

Posted on August 11, 2020June 9, 2021

Madelaine Zadik, a Straw Dog member, lives in the wooded hills of Hampshire County. She is currently working on a memoir about her relationship with her Aunt Helga, whom she never knew Read More

Mr. Big Stuff by CE Whiting

Posted on August 10, 2020June 9, 2021

CE Whiting is an artist/writer who lives and works in Hampshire County. She is a Straw Dog member. Mr. Big Stuff God damn, we had it good in the hood, Read More

Boiling Over by Nancy Smith

Posted on August 9, 2020June 9, 2021

Nancy Smith: I live in Ashfield with my husband. Together we raised three wonderful children who have flown our coop. I began writing seriously with Genie Zeiger in 2007. In Read More

Tumbling Down by Laura Wetzler

Posted on August 8, 2020June 9, 2021

Laura Wetzler is a touring singer-songwriter-guitarist who also writes poetry, essays, theater monologues, and reviews. She has released 5 CDs (laurawetzler.com & iTunes) and her work has been published in Read More

The plague by Rebecca Reid

Posted on August 7, 2020June 9, 2021

Rebecca Reid is a member of Straw Dog, a farmer and writer living in Leverett on a cooperative farm.  She has never submitted anything for publication, except a poem when Read More

Diaspora by Frederick E Steinway

Posted on August 6, 2020June 9, 2021

Frederick E Steinway is a resident of the north-central Massachusetts bioregion. Diaspora is offered here as a unifying concept to explain or envision effects in the biosphere of ongoing geophysical Read More

2020 Hindsight by Epi Bodhi

Posted on August 5, 2020June 9, 2021

Epi Bodhi, Amherst, MA, Straw Dog Member, has been writing poetry since she was young. In the third grade, she was accused of plagiarism for her poem snowflake. Her love Read More

What Lies Beneath by Christopher Queen

Posted on August 4, 2020June 9, 2021

Christopher Queen lives in Franklin County and writes with Ruth Flohr’s creative writing group in Wendell. He has taught world religions, served as a university dean of students, and publishes Read More

Botch Job by Saul Huggins

Posted on August 3, 2020June 9, 2021

Saul Huggins: Mid-fifties, spent most of the past twenty years self-employed and because of that happy fact have been able to travel around a fair bit, sometimes to other countries. Not Read More

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